What have you done to your car today?
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Started sorting the brakes out ready for the karting meet next weekend only for it to start raining 
. Hopefully I'll get to finish them on Monday
. Hopefully I'll get to finish them on Monday
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Nice, don't skimp on the copper grease
Brakes international sent me two left calipers, retards
Yesss! I now have fully working aircon!
When I got the insight it has some missing pipes. I bought a replacement set last year, but the cold weather meant I hadn't bothered even opening the packaging.
The warm spell here motivated me to take a closer look at the problem. The high pressure pipe was completely missing, and on closer inspection, the connection at the firewall was completely mashed. So I had to replace the part that goes in the car, and the pipes in the engine bay.
Fortunately, the bits I'd got form the breakers were all in really good nick. Swapped them all over (wow that was a fiddly job!) - whacked in a canister full of aircon regas - and I have cold air!!!
While I was at it, I replace the pollen filter as well, so all in all - a good day.
Something missing here..
Some of my new bits
That was pretty manky
The old connection was pretty mashed.
Plus, I have found the most useful tool in the world!
When I got the insight it has some missing pipes. I bought a replacement set last year, but the cold weather meant I hadn't bothered even opening the packaging.
The warm spell here motivated me to take a closer look at the problem. The high pressure pipe was completely missing, and on closer inspection, the connection at the firewall was completely mashed. So I had to replace the part that goes in the car, and the pipes in the engine bay.
Fortunately, the bits I'd got form the breakers were all in really good nick. Swapped them all over (wow that was a fiddly job!) - whacked in a canister full of aircon regas - and I have cold air!!!
While I was at it, I replace the pollen filter as well, so all in all - a good day.
Something missing here..
Some of my new bits
That was pretty manky
The old connection was pretty mashed.
Plus, I have found the most useful tool in the world!
Well the garage said they were 90% sure that it was causing my EML light, turns out they were 100% wrong.
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Just fixed the oil leak from the rocker cover gasket on the MR2 and cleaned the air filter.
I thought it had a standard air filter but turned out it had a CAI. Need to declare that with insurance now. Might try and source a standard unit if it increase my insurance cost too much. Cleaned the CAI for now.
The rocker cover gasket was all going well until I put it back together (had to take off quite a bit of stuff to get to it). No more oil leak but a high and rough idle. Spent ages trying to find a vacuum leak but couldn't find any.
Then some searching on google found someone with exactly the same problem as me because "cheap ebay gasket is too small to seal the throttle body".
Quickly change the cheap ebay throttlebody gasket back to original and all is fine. The power of internet win once again.
I thought it had a standard air filter but turned out it had a CAI. Need to declare that with insurance now. Might try and source a standard unit if it increase my insurance cost too much. Cleaned the CAI for now.
The rocker cover gasket was all going well until I put it back together (had to take off quite a bit of stuff to get to it). No more oil leak but a high and rough idle. Spent ages trying to find a vacuum leak but couldn't find any.
Then some searching on google found someone with exactly the same problem as me because "cheap ebay gasket is too small to seal the throttle body".
Quickly change the cheap ebay throttlebody gasket back to original and all is fine. The power of internet win once again.
Was this JC? Ask them to refit the old parts? I wouldn't pay if it didn't fix the problem and I had the old bits I could replace. Kick up a stink, I have done in the past and sometimes it works.
I'm guessing the car was out of warranty?
No it was a place in Peterhead as I was offshore and let my dad deal with it, will be taking it to JC when I get back though. Yeah its a year out of warranty.
Honestly can't think of anywhere in the 'heed to work on that sort of car. Anyway, if its out of warranty there are a couple of specialists you could look at if you want to save pounds:
AW Autotech - Kevin there is ex BMW M engineer. Has worked on my old M5 in the past.
Premier Motors (just off Great Southern road) - He's an ex BMW tech and I've heard good things.
AW Autotech - Kevin there is ex BMW M engineer. Has worked on my old M5 in the past.
Premier Motors (just off Great Southern road) - He's an ex BMW tech and I've heard good things.
Yeah like I said, I left it down to my dad
Ususally I take it a AW Autotech or Bavaria Autowerkes they are both pretty hot with the M models.
woke up and recovered from a raging hang over and decided to put new front calipers on the BMW and flush brake fluid and the clutch slave.
my normal "well whilst youre here" mentality struck again so carriers came off and everything was wirebrushed back to clean and greased in the right placed but had a drama with the slider pins on the OS
jacked up the whole of the rear and bled those in no time.
then "whilst youre here" told me to sort out the two jubilee clips that i think are causing my coolant leak.
top one was OK to do even with the fan and shroud in place, second one was a mare and i broke the new clip trying.
fan and shroud came out, more faffing. turns out the hose clamps were BMW items but the wrong size. the ones i bought were the correct BMW quoted range on realoem.
also tried to find the clutch delay valve as i wanted to remove it. couldnt find it but the clutch feels nicer anyway with new fluid
my normal "well whilst youre here" mentality struck again so carriers came off and everything was wirebrushed back to clean and greased in the right placed but had a drama with the slider pins on the OS
jacked up the whole of the rear and bled those in no time.
then "whilst youre here" told me to sort out the two jubilee clips that i think are causing my coolant leak.
top one was OK to do even with the fan and shroud in place, second one was a mare and i broke the new clip trying.
fan and shroud came out, more faffing. turns out the hose clamps were BMW items but the wrong size. the ones i bought were the correct BMW quoted range on realoem.
also tried to find the clutch delay valve as i wanted to remove it. couldnt find it but the clutch feels nicer anyway with new fluid
It's on the end of the slave hose which bolts to the bracket. Mine was completely seized onto the fitting, others say it's a simple thing to remove though.
Anyway, deletion is a very good improvement. An early M3 might not have one tbh, if you do then you will have noticed the awkwardness to the clutch operation and the clutch slip you experience when upshifting vigorously and/or clutch kicking.
Surprised you didn't curse about the clutch slave bleeding, mine took hours of faffing, in the end removing the slave and doing it manually and upside down, drenched in DOT4 and thoroughly miserable by the end. Damn thing is an absolute ********** to put back on. I remember pushing the thing in with all my strength, then trying to hold it in with one hand while putting the bolt in to a hole that can;t be seen or accessed without a wobbly extension that flops and drops the bolt out every 2 seconds.
Never again.
Anyway, deletion is a very good improvement. An early M3 might not have one tbh, if you do then you will have noticed the awkwardness to the clutch operation and the clutch slip you experience when upshifting vigorously and/or clutch kicking.
Surprised you didn't curse about the clutch slave bleeding, mine took hours of faffing, in the end removing the slave and doing it manually and upside down, drenched in DOT4 and thoroughly miserable by the end. Damn thing is an absolute ********** to put back on. I remember pushing the thing in with all my strength, then trying to hold it in with one hand while putting the bolt in to a hole that can;t be seen or accessed without a wobbly extension that flops and drops the bolt out every 2 seconds.
Never again.
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This is a very rare sight!!
Stuck it on the dyno, its down 20bhp since last year. tomorrow may well be spent rectifying that!
Stuck it on the dyno, its down 20bhp since last year. tomorrow may well be spent rectifying that!
it was about 4-5 out of 10 for being a pain. i had one of those one way bleed hoses on the slave and i was using a 4 pint milk carton (ie pretty tall) for it to get into
i used a pressure bleeder (ie off a tyre) to push the fluid through, so i was particularly worried about anytrhing going wrong and getting covered in brake fluid (brake fluid in your eye leads to instant crazy pain) and when you get it on your skin ive seen it peel great chunks of skin before!
there is a rubber hose, then hard hose then the slave. unless the cdv is in the end of the rubber hose, i dont have a cdv (and i do get slip occassionally)
I used an eazi bleed too, looked fine no air coming through but had no pedal at all.
It's on the end of the hose, between the rubber hose and hard line, against the bracket.
I thought my clutch was shot, but now I can hammer in the gears as hard as I like without slip. It actually gives the exact same satisfying thump into gear that you get in an SMG in S6, I like this.
Another symptom of a tired hose is that it becomes a pain in the ass to get it into 1st from a standstill.
Anyway, what I did to mine is investigate the incredibly annoying knocking noise from the front end. Seems like there's some play in the tie rods/ends on both sides. Must be time for new ones, might as well swap out the wishbones and drop links while I'm in there too.
It's on the end of the hose, between the rubber hose and hard line, against the bracket.
I thought my clutch was shot, but now I can hammer in the gears as hard as I like without slip. It actually gives the exact same satisfying thump into gear that you get in an SMG in S6, I like this.
Another symptom of a tired hose is that it becomes a pain in the ass to get it into 1st from a standstill.
Anyway, what I did to mine is investigate the incredibly annoying knocking noise from the front end. Seems like there's some play in the tie rods/ends on both sides. Must be time for new ones, might as well swap out the wishbones and drop links while I'm in there too.